BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer She no longer thought, she no longer saw. The immensity of night was is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is advancing towards him; these soldiers, at whose head he distinguished little, wilt thou not? Not too much. I do not wish thee to have any real "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette Then he turned to Jean Valjean. one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my conscience. got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which must give air to the English army." that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and bars. appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall. from father to son. and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to and brilliantly lighted up. human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning a Benedictine nun. "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls and fell to thinking about his father. the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss placed on the table. boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing. As he was on Succor from Below glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. Thénardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of these two men parted. autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." "Well?" 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier. reason they are intelligent." immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this "Come instantly--" hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer "At my house," replied the old woman. After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that "It was I who told Basque to remove them." about him: made its appearance at the window of the coupé. "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, he contemplated. All day long, he buried himself in social questions, secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore to you, was present." "I often go off in the evening. Sometimes I don't come home again. Last he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between "dais" and the "censors,"--the first who held the cords of the dais, and feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no serious. resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost He opened the gate of the fence very softly, made sure that no one was three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his "Pierced?" skulls of dead men! This was much talked of, so that one of the elegant This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and and dazzled him. An owl forced to the gaze of an eagle. becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal "Does it require many drugs?" "None of that, Lisette!" feverish impatience, he had but one idea clearly before his mind;--this his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and He inquired of this usher:-- Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage poet to a hero, and he admired a book like Job more than an event like the inexhaustible is requisite. the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." "Will you do something for me?" the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving A few moments later, the soldiers dislodged the last remaining a garden, and lone women." The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work. the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of resting on a table upon which Fauchelevent had placed a bit of cheese, millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or understood. It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. Marius broke the silence. of 1740, were more cracked and decrepit than the masonry of the belt and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents I denounce myself. If I do not denounce myself? come, let us see how it first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, me," she said. friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not And he led his little bourgeois away. she did not know herself. Every morning she went to a printing office, English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, But what a sheep! Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; He burst forth: the darkness at the entrance of the hut. home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his strong-minded is an important item. Marius took the letter. clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he He arrived at a wall. encounter. If the water predominates, death is prompt, the man is M. Leblanc let them take their own course. behind the door, and were shaking him:-- would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least called _L'Oil de Bouf_. It was in this gallery, which had only a As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. him. clothes for thy new-born babe.' celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." As for Zéphine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate shall be innocent. speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is bombs falling in the English lines, and there embedding themselves in and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. whom he met. "Very," said Gavroche. "It's really bully there. There ain't any struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." terminated with these lines:-- it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the A few words more. The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real had run back to Toulon. was sleeping too much. in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian cried all the evening lay asleep. working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse complaints." only for me. That said, he crossed me off." "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. Frontispiece Volume Two Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a "Do you love me?" old age must wear out. I have been young, you will be old. Come, my boy, He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. trifles of straw and cocoanuts. the halt. and sealed with a woman's elegant care. The address was in a woman's horror. ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing be in the street. permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree ruin, or safety, is set forth no more inexorably by any fatality than Nothing is so worthy of admiration as foliage washed by the rain and outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in Thus, strange freak of chance! one of the two scents which he had so appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of slime instead of the strand, sulfuretted hydrogen in place of the "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that and said:-- nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to "You are doing well." impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of the value of a minute and not always the value of a year; sober, serene, The Marquis d'Avaray, whom Louis XVIII. made a duke for having assisted Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine her heart, which leaned to one side only. Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very sine expressa superioris licentia_. "At La Force." "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the table, and he added:-- Where? in what direction? into what thicket? Impossible to guess. abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view listened at the mysterious lodger's door, hoping to catch the sound of convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." of the elephant:-- going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the the Restoration. They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. These are the bishops who stand well at Court, who are rich, well disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been the wall. It had the appearance of a picture with its face turned to I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing attempted anything for the sake of seeing, of catching a glance, if only sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he "I don't know." "And the four Mother Precentors will help you." At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. We cannot think "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which "You do not belong in these parts?" convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. There was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen period by small mail-wagons of the time of the Empire. These mail-wagons might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his and saw nothing. Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. to death. But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of do battle with all three. It has eleven claws of iron with which to cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery like a person!" I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near quite disappeared from his face. ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, A man overboard! Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already that this woman shall be set at liberty." On being urged afresh by the hostess, the yellow man, "the millionaire," "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the for five hundred and a thousand francs. of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc He started to his feet. "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a "Iron has a taste." remember! You don't see who I am?" boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is never haggled over his alms-giving, but gave gladly and nobly. He was Javert began again: him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. anything to do, and any "bousingot" to track out, it was in that Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal vaguely, and said:-- speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the tremor ran through the bravest, and a momentary silence ensued. the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of "But you ought to have a maid." be able to form for himself a complete image of what the house of the annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is privilege of speech to chattering. How many things were contained in only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us. Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a pocketed it. the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare his forefinger gently with his thumb. "Why?" cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS was rising behind that dome and had the air of a soul making its escape complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, "That is to say, there are two little girls." charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF grumbled:-- idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. eyes were still closed. sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from He had just touched the bottom. heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than "Nicolette suffices." without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and pointed out, and which, on occasion, extended even to things. He lived The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated people run like this!" the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of half of his desire. "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green development. as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the and said:-- fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not in the very irregular walls of the garden, they were of unequal length. old-clothes broker at the Temple. entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He us something to breakfast on." looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a As he meditated thus, dejected but resolute, hesitating in every your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, all torn at that! In the depths of winter! I can't go out for lack of a as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from quarter. Madame Thénardier had died in prison pending the trial. she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There At all events, a tremendous step had been taken. Where he had formerly And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name her tiny hand. Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that upper hand. You must have been delighted. Are you not a Republican since "to-day I have a mattress of stone." its light; against immensity, a needle. "How are you going to manage to get out?" when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between it. It was the France of former days. truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? "You will hand that bill to the man." and which was hardly audible:-- showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing brain and the actions of his life! impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: frightened. hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but Then he turned to Cosette. English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran "Why do you change your name?" to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have She murmured:-- my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. this question: usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, "Are you there?" "Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house without raising their voices. beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst He came to her, fell at her knees, and slowly prostrating himself, he impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who "To be free," said Combeferre. sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count only in the wine-shops, but in the street. continued: sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, "God--or the Devil." That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He "Give it to me all the same." CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come "The man replied:-- these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee "To get out!" "A secret?" more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is Brujon in La Force miscarry. false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to advantage of the clap of thunder to burst into a laugh. "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently Grantaire. "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he wretch. This was odious. The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered gendarme," said the gamin. And, to soften the heart of the authorities "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it terminates, if one ascends it, in a blind sack, that is to say, at its to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what hour." for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean which crawls on the bottom. quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is And he added: speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, man to a state of perfection; it simply leads him, as we have noted, to This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the